Word: commonality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...King's conscience out of which our present system of Equity has grown. Even if such a commission should rec commend a pardon it would not over-whelm or discredit the finding of the Court. The commission would, like the Chancellor's Court, fill in a gap which the common law has left open. The creation of a Court of Chancery has not exhausted the power of the Sovereign to do justice in any case in which it is obvious that the existing legal and equitable procedure is inadequate. Nor would the appointment of such a commission express any lack...
...more and more closely together. The superficial antithesis which sets the individual over against society, in seeming opposition to each other, must inevitably rise, he declared, to a more profound view which holds to a higher synthesis which recognizes the interdependence of all individuals in working out a common lot and destiny...
...annual Pops Concerts of Boston, to be held this year between May 2 and July 2, date back to the earliest stages of Boston's musical history. They are indeed as much a part of Boston as the Common or the golden-dome of the State House. One would hunt in vain in other cities for anything just like the Pops...
...control, though tomorrow it will be something else. At first the very mention of birth control was tabu. It violated the convention of secrecy shrouding all matters of sex and reproduction since time immemorial. I don't know that any one died from the shock; but emotional disturbance was common enough, and quite real. Most of us have passed beyond this stage today. In Massachusetts recently a candidate was defeated because the opposition called him a sexagenarian; but this, I take it, is exceptional. The idea of children by choice instead of chance has made so much headway that...
Having so much in common both in tradition and in modern tendency, it in unfortunate that the Yale and Harvard clubs do not come into contact except in the informal joint concert in the fall on the evening of the Yale-Harvard football game. Given at this time, the importance of the concert as a noteworthy attraction is somewhat overshadowed by other social activities, and the program is composed entirely of old glees and popular songs which are fitted for such an occasion. Since this does not provide an opportunity for a presentation of the best work of both clubs...